Beyond the Headlines: Yale launches its 2012 Current Affairs Catalogue

Yale Current Affairs Catalogue 2012

Yale’s Current Affairs catalogue is available now to order and download. With many fascinating books available in 2012, today we preview a selection of forthcoming titles that look beyond the headlines to discover the truth behind current events.

2011 was a highly eventful year in international politics, with the Arab Spring engendering protest movements, political upheaval and bloody violence in Arab countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Yale’s current affairs list is steadily growing each year, and in 2011 it continued to cement its reputation as a top quality source of political analysis, journalism, historical context and insightful prescience. Tarek Osman’s extraordinarily perceptive Egypt on the Brink was published before the infamous Tahrir Square protests and subsequent upheaval, and led to the author becoming an often-quoted source on Egyptian politics in the febrile months following the revolution.

Looking at the year ahead, with a bitter US presidential election to come and a ominously growing diplomatic standoff between Iran and the US/Israel, a particular highlight from Yale’s current affairs catalogue is Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran. In this illuminating book, Trita Parsi uncovers the full details of the diplomatic encounters between Washington and Tehran during Obama’s early presidency, then discusses whether diplomacy should be the foreign policy approach of choice for the U.S.

Keep an eye on on this blog for the latest extracts, interviews and articles from Yale’s current affairs authors, including What’s Next? author Lyric Hale’s regular column, which focuses on global economic issues.